Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End

The 2024 reopening of The West End Museum (The WEM) includes a completely redesigned exhibit: Rise, Fall & Rebirth: Stories of the West End.

The key features of the new exhibit are:

1. Modularity: Space is the main gallery is allocated to cover a variety of corp topics, including early settlement and development, immigration, urban renewal, and much more. Rotating special exhibits and films will complement the permanent exhibit with additional themes related to the historical and contemporary West End.
2. Digital content: Video and interactive displays will enable The WEM to expand its limited wall space virtually, and provide visitors with new and more dynamic content.
3. More inclusion: While The WEM has always told a very inclusive story, we recognized a gap around the modern character of the West End. Our new permanent exhibit incorporates post-renewal stories into our narrative more seriously.
4. Bringing out the archives: We have incorporated many more original artifacts and reproduced images into the displays, making then feel more unique and immersive. The WEM’s acquisition budget is also growing to ensure that we can regularly offer new and intriguing pieces for viewing.
5. An experience: A motivating factor in this new exhibit is to make The WEM a more interesting overall experience. While content is always a priority, we want you to feel the West End story by surrounding you with the images, sounds, emotions and physical remnants of the historic neighborhood.

CAMBRIDGE STREET SUPPORTERS

Julia Forbes
Andrew Matteis
James Bonaccorso

JOY STREET SUPPORTERS

David N Aurelio
Gene Kroner
Joseph McDonald
Jane Wilson
Mary Louise Burke
Michelle Desveaux
Virginia Caruso Bove
Skip Stearns
Timothy Eastman
Matthew Conti
Joseph Russo
Joseph Cancelleri
Janelle Smart Fisher
John Cucinotta
West End Place
Denton Crews
Bruce Guarino
Anne Van Nostrand
Lois Ascher

LEVERETT STREET SUPPORTERS

Henry Bain
Strada234 Condominium Trust
The Greatest Bar
Evelyn Berde
Jennifer Cartee
Susan Gilbert
Charles Honig
Kevin Murphy
Denise Penney
Rebecca Riordan
Michael Wyson

PINCKNEY STREET SUPPORTERS

Tom Burgess
Stephen F Ober Memorial Fund
Friends of the North End

RIDGEWAY LANE SUPPORTERS

Phillip Jones
Jonathan Aibel
Roslyn Diamond
Nancy Linday
Kathleen McPhee
Elizabeth Murray
Mary Cooney
Alexander von Hoffman
Maria Sidor
Carl Carlsen
Patricia Dick
William Millett
Alan Berkman
Joan Jacobs
Daniel Dain
Robert Malster
Meghan Backhouse
Christine Carney
Kathleen Clifford
Jean Farrell-Tai
Earl Greene
Carrie Johnson
Paul Kafasis
Mary Krajci
Carlene Lajoie
Dawn Lake
Pam LaRue
Jane Lewis
Margaret Liss
Patrick Malone
Dianne Masiello
Alison McRae
Betsy Munzer
Brenda Noe
Vanessa Parks
Victor Passacantilli
Theresa Raso
Dianne Royle
Richard Shibley
Nathan Weinberg
David Wizansky
Howard Woolf
Lynne Young
David Chosiad
Duane Lucia
Jane Papa
Rachel Silver
Gretchen Locke
William Kuttner
Kathleen Fitzgibbon
John Zinkowski
Arlene Andrew
Elaine Aquilino
Georgeanne Aquino
Thomas Damigella
Carolyn Faria
Wendy Gordon
Christopher Gorton
Doreen Hogle
Craig Kelley
Robin Keough
Marie Manupelli
Sheila Petruccelli
Nella Potenza
Anita Schoen
Herb Shifres
Sharon Slodki
Jaquie Sullivan
Louise Thomas
Dena Barisano
Jim Tabner
Francis Morello
Anonymous (x2)
Pam Borys
Julia Brooks
Leslie Brunetta
Suzanne Buchanan
Leah Dearborn
Katt Hernandez
Edwin Kaufman
Ronald Klodenski
George MacNeil
Christine Pimentel
Diana Sabella
Sarah Siedlar
Anne Smagorinsky
Mary Stone
Kathleen Thompson
Otis Wheeler
Anne Crissey
Jane Forrestall
Ellen Litt
Susan Smith
Valerie Quinones
Sebastian Aldo Desveaux Belfanti
Zack DeClerck